The footer of the photographic studio Symbol is visually closed by two labels containing links to Facebook and Twitter.

Jeff Croft’s web site menu has a very pleasant ajax transition caused by mousing your mouse over any top label. Furthermore, the graphic of the selected item is consistent throughout the site and is used to create buttons and call-out elements.

Duoh!, the belgian web agency run by Veerle Pieters and Geert Leyseele, has a web site pagination that’s not only graphically pleasant but is also associated with a nice label. Veerle Pieters, among other things, was recently named one of 30 full most influential people in the world of web design.

A classic: the drop-down menu (in this case graphic designer Anton Mircea’s portfolio).

Impulse Studios footer conjugates both the functions of customers login and map site navigation.

Absolute Bica is the portfolio of Bryan Kohlmeier: you can customize the background image by choosing between four different settings, inspired by various times of day.

I think it’s an interesting typographical choice (is this typeFutura Condensed?) using a progressive numbering to explain one’s portfolio: in this case the author’s Piotr Godek, the one-man band behind the web agency Odd Web Things.

A nice idea to present projects in one’s portfolio: designing them as pin /buttons.

A strip made of all its work is the metaphor used by Rob Morris, a.k.a Digital Mash,to introduce his portfolio.

Pampaneo’s footer  (on the top) closes the story of two young designers, who venture on a secret mission to discover “new world of images”: the metaphor of space exploration starts from the home page and develops consistently in the web site (eg. on the header of internal pages, on the bottom).

The footer in Fred Maya’s portfolio

Fogde Morten Christensen’s blog beautiful infographics.

Stunning icons designed by Eugen Bouzouki (some are free).

Tab navigation in Web Agency Sunrise Design is well evidenced by the use of icons and ample spacing.

An example of minimal paging, without numbers, in Josh Smith’s online portfolio.

The creativity of this New Media Agencyt can be seen immediately by the visual impact of its web site: you can choose between four different themes and nice giraffes are lowered into environments not always orthodox ..

Changing the text in the menu with a photo is a nice idea. A quick loading in Ajax appears the first time you load an image to prevent unpleasant effects of vacuum.

I love slideshows that don’t steal the scene and let the projects speak: as in the case Plustwelve’s portfolio, web designer in Ottawa.

Using oriented vertically texts in web. sites leaves me puzzled  I think this treatment should be reserved either in situations where the overall dimensions make it absolutely necessary or for short texts (e.g. often you see the Feedback button oriented vertically).

O and C concentrics in Michel Ferreira’s blog.

It’ quite an idea to customize standard buttons (mail, Skype,credential) by adding an element of the logo (in this case the letter F).

An example of grunge style applied to contacts form in the Kev Adamson’s blog, illustrator and designer .

Selection and content filtering buttons on Viljami Salminen’s portofolio: halfway between web and operating system graphic.

Rustin Jessen uses for the lettering of his blog dedicated to typography Adobe Caslon: does it still makes sense speaking of web fonts, web safe typefaces or systems fonts?

I love the way these tabs smoothly change of color when you hover on them.

I immediately loved  Modalinc low-fi icons, an U.S. study of interaction and design.

Using a mascot to characterize your website and so creating brand awareness is a current trend in web design.  The most important thing to keep in mind is using a custom designed mascot and avoiding stock images.

Carbonmade is a valuable service for creatives and designers, that allows you to quickly create presentations and portfolios of your work.  The login mask is placed at the end of an interesting “waterfall path”, made of colorful forms that attract the attention of the visitor and lead the eye to the sign in form.

Huge chose the way of an absolute minimalism to present itself to the market: a typographical heading gives character to pages otherwise devoid of any visual treatment.

Cheery illustrations on Think Orange website, a Portuguese design studio.